The Primacy of Metaphysics
(Sprache: Englisch)
What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, and the ways you think about them? Christopher Peacocke argues that meaning is never prior to metaphysics - to the nature of the world. He shows that this view holds for a wide range of...
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What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, and the ways you think about them? Christopher Peacocke argues that meaning is never prior to metaphysics - to the nature of the world. He shows that this view holds for a wide range of topics, including magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract objects such as numbers.
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This book presents a new view of the relation between metaphysics and the theory of meaning, broadly construed. Christopher Peacocke develops a general claim that metaphysics is always involved, either as explanatorily prior, or in a no-priority relationship, to the theory of meaning and content. Meaning and intentional content are never explanatorily prior to the metaphysics. He aims to show, in successive chapters of The Primacy of Metaphysics, how the general view holds for magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract objects. For each of these cases, the metaphysics of the entities involved is explanatorily prior to an account of the nature of our language and thought about them. Peacocke makes original contributions to the metaphysics of these topics, and offers consequential new treatments of analogue computation and representation. In the final chapter, he argues that his approach generates a new account of the limits of intelligibility, and locates his account in relation to other treatments of this classical conundrum.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Primacy of Metaphysics “
- Introduction
- 1: Metaphysics and the Theory of Content
- 2: Magnitudes
- 3: Time
- 4: The Self
- 5: Number
- 6: Ontology and Intelligibility
- 7: Avenues for Further Development
Autoren-Porträt von Christopher Peacocke
Christopher Peacocke worked for many years in Oxford and London. He was successively a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, a Tutorial Fellow of New College, Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at Kings College London, and finally for twelve years Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2000 he became Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is currently Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study in the University of London.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christopher Peacocke
- 2019, 234 Seiten, Maße: 15,8 x 24,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198835574
- ISBN-13: 9780198835578
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
An erudite examination of a fascinating but difficult philosophical subject, this book will primarily interest those working in epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. P. Jenkins, CHOICE
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